The Death of Christopher Hitchens (4 Viewers)

[evanstroeve]

AUTHOR, journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens has died in Texas at the age of 62 after a battle with cancer.Hitchens died of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Vanity Fair announced on their website.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wo...er-hitchens-dies/story-e6frf7lf-1226224201909

This fucking sucks SO hard.

 

[Lentern]

My prayers are with him and his family.

 

[funkshen]

allah akbar

 

[Chemical Ali]

NO!

 

[Garygaz]

My prayers are with him and his family.

you're disgusting

 

[Power Rangers]

what a shame

 

[mirakon]

didn't really agree with him a lot of the time, but nevertheless his death is still a sad loss to the world of ideas

 

[Lentern]

you're disgusting

They'll do more for him than any of this pointless caterwauling about how great he was.

 

[evanstroeve]

They'll do more for him than any of this pointless caterwauling about how great he was.

You're kidding?

 

[shadowdude4]

so sad

 

[Lentern]

You're kidding?

I didn't like him but I don't want him to go to hell, I don't think he was a bad person just boorish and frustrated. What exactly is the use of moaning about how great he was? Hitchens himself would have been the first person to say "he's gone, get over it."

 

[LonelyWolf]

I didn't like him but I don't want him to go to hell, I don't think he was a bad person just boorish and frustrated. What exactly is the use of moaning about how great he was? Hitchens himself would have been the first person to say "he's gone, get over it."

You're Christian?

 

[Lentern]

You're Christian?

Surely you knew that already.

 

[Garygaz]

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

 

[Lentern]

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

oh fuck off to twitter neckbeard

 

[evanstroeve]

I didn't like him but I don't want him to go to hell, I don't think he was a bad person just boorish and frustrated. What exactly is the use of moaning about how great he was? Hitchens himself would have been the first person to say "he's gone, get over it."

Upset as I am about the death of a great thinker, I was hoping the thread would evolve into a discussion of his ideas and writings, rather than a stream of "caterwauling" about his death. He is gone, but his works and ideas remain. They are arguably great and are worthy of discussion in the light of his death.

 

[Lentern]

Upset as I am about the death of a great thinker, I was hoping the thread would evolve into a discussion of his ideas and writings, rather than a stream of "caterwauling" about his death. He is gone, but his works and ideas remain. They are arguably great and are worthy of discussion in the light of his death.

They have been discussed too much already, and for all his bombastic waffle they can be summised as "don't believe something without proof."

 

[evanstroeve]

They have been discussed too much already, and for all his bombastic waffle they can be summised as "don't believe something without proof."

That's disgustingly reductive. The bulk of his works don't even concern themselves with religion or proof. You're being ignorant and disrespectful.

 

[Lentern]

That's disgustingly reductive. The bulk of his works don't even concern themselves with religion or proof. You're being ignorant and disrespectful.

Oh yes theres the stuff about women not being funny, lets talk about that.

 

[evanstroeve]

Oh yes theres the stuff about women not being funny, lets talk about that.

Sure, reduce that to an uninformed summary, go ahead.